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The Power of Breath: SKY Breath Meditation

SKY Breath Meditation

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1 CE Hour

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Description

Discover the power of the breath as an untapped vehicle for mental well-being and resilience from an international expert with over twenty years of experience teaching. In the workshop, you will learn effective and evidence-based breathwork and tools to foster emotional regulation, promote calm alertness, and support ease in settling into meditation. The workshop will allow participants to experience how breathwork and meditation techniques can create a sense of belonging and foster mindful leadership. Research from top universities on the techniques delivered in the workshop as well as the SKY breath meditation technique will be shared.

Target Audience
  • • Social Worker
  • • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • • Counselor
  • • Substance Use Disorder Professionals
Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Describe 2 ways breath work can be used to enhance mental well-being and resilience.

  • Identify 2 or more evidence-based ways that breathwork tools can foster emotional regulation and promote calm alertness

  • Identify and describe 3 breathwork or meditation techniques that can be used to create a sense of belonging and foster mindful leadership.

References

  • Sureka, P., et al., Effect of Sudarshan Kriya on male prisoners with non psychotic psychiatric disorders: A randomized control trial. Asian journal of psychiatry, 2014. 12: p. 43-49.

  • Toschi-Dias, E., et al., Sudarshan Kriya Yoga improves cardiac autonomic control in patients with anxiety-depression disorders. Journal of Affective Disorders, 2017. 214: p. 74-80.

  • Sharma, A., et al., A breathing-based meditation intervention for patients with major depressive disorder following inadequate response to antidepressants: a randomized pilot study. The Journal of clinical psychiatry, 2017. 78(1): p. e59.

  • Martin, A., Multi-component yoga breath program for Vietnam veteran post traumatic stress disorder: randomized controlled trial. Journal of Traumatic Stress Disorders & Treatment, 2013.

  • Kharya, C., et al., Effect of controlled breathing exercises on the psychological status and the cardiac autonomic tone: Sudarshan Kriya and Prana-Yoga. Indian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology, 2014. 58(3): p. 210-220.

  • Goldstein, M.R., et al., Improvements in well-being and vagal tone following a yogic breathing-based life skills workshop in young adults: Two open-trial pilot studies. International journal of yoga, 2016. 9(1): p. 20.

  • Carter, J., et al., Multi-component yoga breath program for Vietnam veteran post traumatic stress disorder: randomized controlled trial. J Trauma Stress Disor Treat 2, 2013. 3: p. 2.

  • Walker III, J. and D. Pacik, Controlled Rhythmic Yogic Breathing as Complementary Treatment for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Military Veterans: A Case Series. Medical acupuncture, 2017. 29(4): p. 232-238.

  • Chandra, S., et al., Mental stress: neurophysiology and its regulation by Sudarshan Kriya Yoga. International journal of yoga, 2017. 10(2): p. 67.

  • Kharya, C., et al., Effect of controlled breathing exercises on the psychological status and the cardiac autonomic tone: Sudarshan Kriya and Prana-Yoga. Indian J Physiol Pharmacol, 2014. 58(3): p. 210-220.

  • Ghahremani, D.G., et al., Effects of the Youth Empowerment Seminar on impulsive behavior in adolescents. Journal of Adolescent Health, 2013.

  • Katzman, M.A., et al., A multicomponent yoga-based, breath intervention program as an adjunctive treatment in patients suffering from Generalized Anxiety Disorder with or without comorbidities. International journal of yoga, 2012. 5(1): p. 57.

  • Sureka, P., et al., Effect of Sudarshan Kriya on male prisoners with non psychotic psychiatric disorders: A randomized control trial. Asian journal of psychiatry, 2014. 12: p. 43-49.

  • Toschi-Dias, E., et al., Sudarshan Kriya Yoga improves cardiac autonomic control in patients with anxiety-depression disorders. Journal of Affective Disorders, 2017. 214: p. 74-80.

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Social Worker

TPN.health, #1766, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 03/31/2022 – 03/31/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 1 Clinical continuing education credits.

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LCSWs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1 hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0654.

Marriage & Family Therapist

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0097.

Counselor

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0220.

TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1000101) to sponsor continuing education for LPCCs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Course meets the qualifications for 1 hours of continuing education credit for LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

TPN.health has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7267. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. TPN.health is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Substance Use Disorder Professionals

This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programming.This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programing. Counselor Skill Group: Legal, Ethical and Professional Development

CE Policy
TPN.health and this educator have no conflicts of interest and have not received any commercial support for this program or its contents.
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Annelies Richmond

Annelies Richmond is an international master trainer of SKY Breath Meditation, breathwork and leadership development programs through the International Association for Human Values and the Art of Living Foundation. She has taught tens of thousands of people in the last 22 years, and has trained over 1,400 certified meditation and leadership teachers in 5 countries. She started using these practices daily during her 15-year career as a professional ballet dancer with the Metropolitan Opera in NYC and found that they enhanced not only physical stamina and capacity, but also mental clarity and emotional resilience. She is founding director of SKY Campus Happiness Program, a national university leadership and well-being program, through which she trains and empowers student leaders, staff and faculty to become breathwork & well-being facilitators for their campus. She travels across the U.S. teaching and lecturing at institutions such as Yale University, Purdue University, UPENN, MIT, Northeastern University, Columbia University, the United Nations, and Google. Her courses, talks and sessions are known for their authenticity, lightness, and humor, combined with a depth of wisdom that brings one to the present moment.

 

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